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Ineos gives Oxford University £100m for antibiotic research
What’s Happening? Chemicals company Ineos has donated £100m ($136.2m) to the University of Oxford to form an institute to focus ...
Nicola Watts
January 23, 2021

Digital health: the new normal
What’s Happening? UK downloads of health apps have substantially increased during the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, an Organisation for ...
Nicola Watts
January 16, 2021

Israel criticised over vaccination exclusion of Palestinians
What’s happening? Israel is facing criticism from human rights organisations for excluding Palestinians from its vaccine programme, which is seeing jabs ...
Abir Qazilbash
January 9, 2021

The pandemic may change the face of start-up VC funding for the better
What’s happening? The Covid-19 pandemic has forced US venture capitalists to abandon the "20-minute rule" and seek start-up investment opportunities across ...
Sara Trett
January 9, 2021

Big Tobacco to the rescue: Will BAT’s vaccine smoke Covid-19?
What’s happening? The US FDA has approved trials by British American Tobacco’s (BAT) biotechnology operation Kentucky BioProcessing (KBP) on a ...
Nicola Watts
January 2, 2021

How realistic are India’s universal health care plans?
What’s happening? The Lancet Citizens' Commission has been launched in India, with the aim of developing a roadmap towards universal ...
Nicola Watts
December 19, 2020

How Donald Trump’s continued election contesting could hinder vaccination efforts
What’s happening? Alternative conservative news networks Newsmax and One American News (OAN) are gaining in popularity, with a recent survey ...
Nick Jardine
December 19, 2020

Will we learn from Covid-19 and stop discriminatory health care practices?
What’s happening? Black Americans are the least willing to have a Covid-19 vaccine when one becomes available in the US, ...
Nicola Watts
December 12, 2020
